Archive for Chinese

We've all heard, "Confucius say..." What an amazing man he must have been. His reign of wisdom dates back a bit: 551–479 BC. Back then, his name was Kong Qiu.

How could someone who lived so long ago have such insight into mankind? Well, perhaps over time he's been credited with a few things he didn't actually say.

So I did some research and fortunately, I've found his book. I consider it a Nostradamus Predicts of Chinese proverbs. How amazingly prescient he was. Judge for yourself. Here's a few sayings I found that I'd like to share with you. If they resonate, I'm happy. If not, hey, it was Confucius, not me.

Man who read woman like book, prefer braille.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

He who sleeps in cat house by day, in doghouse by night.

Man who self-satisfy come in handy.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

He who has hole in pocket feels cocky all day.

Baseball is wrong. Man with four balls cannot walk.

He who drives like hell, bound to get there!

He who goes to bed with sex problem, wake up with solution in hand.

He who jump off cliff, jump to conclusion!

Man kicked in testicles, left holding bag.

He who put head on Rail Road track to listen for train, likely to end up with splitting headache.

Dbag got the attention he wants, no kudos for him. If he was really ashamed he'd have pulled the video from YouTube.

Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra has taken down a controversial Chinese-themed website and is phasing in a new TV commercial in the slot of his original Super Bowl ad that was panned as racially insensitive.

Along with the Super Bowl ad that featured a Chinese-American actress speaking broken English, the GOP Senate hopeful launched a website www.DebbieSpentitnow.com that included Chinese characters, paper lanterns, parade dragons and Democratic opponent Debbie Stabenow's face on a Chinese fan. The web address now is directed to Hoekstra's traditional Senate campaign page.

Asked about the switch made four days after the original ad debuted, Hoekstra campaign spokesman Paul Ciaramitaro said in an email: "After hundreds of thousands of visitors to the micro-site saw our first campaign ad and the effects of Stabenow's reckless spending, we wanted to direct traffic to Pete's site where voters can see our second ad, which lays out Pete's vision of fiscal discipline and economic growth."

Hoekstra on Thursday launched another TV ad, again reiterating the nickname for Stabenow — Debbie Spend-it-now — but this time without the Chinese references. The campaign said the new ad is running in the same rotation as the previous one, but declined to discuss details on whether the non-Chinese ad will be more dominant.

What’s the latest on the Pete Hoekstra “Chinese” ad that’s been generating all the controversy? A follower on Twitter points out that in the html code on Hoekstra’s site the woman in the ad is identified as “yellowgirl.” I checked and sure enough he’s right.

It seems from the context that they might be referring to the yellow shirt the “Chinese” woman is wearing. But probably just another level of the unfortunateness.

Now, in context, they could have been referring to the color of her shirt, as seen in the picture below. Perhaps. Although in that case "orange girl" is the term that might occur to most people.

I suppose it's as if you were using a picture of Colin Powell or President Obama wearing a black shirt. If you were producing one of these ads, by the same logic you could just label it "black boy," right? I mean, why not?